2019 St Albans District Primary Schools Trials Gala

Thank you to all the swimmers who participated in the gala. We saw some excellent swims and a significant number of personal best times. There were 5 records broken in total (out of 16 events). We had around 70 swimmers participating, ranging from region level swimmers to many at their first gala.

- Butterfly - 1.81s inside the record of Nathan Hughes - Backstroke - 1.28s inside the record of Nathan Hughes Note the records held by Nathan Hughes were from 2011 (8 years ago!) Note also William was 0.02s outside of the Freestyle record also held by Nathan Hughes from 2011

​The winner of the St Albans District Primary Schools Trial Gala cup for 2019, awarded for the best performance at the 2019 Trials Gala, went to William Fawcett, Year 6 Boys, of Mount Pleasant Lane Primary. Emily Gray was second and Sonny Maddison third.The full list of the Trials Gala cup performances are at the bottom of this page.

We thank all the officials and helpers who gave up their time to make this gala such a successful one.

We will be selecting the St Albans District team for the 2019 Herts Inter-District Primary Championships in the next couple of days and will e-mail those swimmers who have been successful. As a general rule, any swimmer that has come first or second in a particular event will be selected in the team. The Herts Inter-District Primary Championships are on Friday 10th May at Watford Woodside.

Andrew EllisSt Albans District Schools Swimming Association

St Albans District Primary Schools Trials Gala cup 2019- The winner of the cup is generally that swimmer in their 2 best events had a better overall combined difference from Herts County qualification times than any other swimmer. The swimmer must have at least 2 winning events. Where a swimmer had more than 2 winning events then the 2 best events (relative to the Herts qual times) are used.- The Herts county qualification times used are: 10 years for Year 5's and 11 years for Year 6's (the 2015 qualification times for counties have been used as these are set at March and are used to approximate 1/2 way through the school year (Sept to Aug))- It has to be recognised that this methodology is not completely foolproof and the performances over all events are looked at.- The Herts County qualification times are used as this currently is the best method to equalise the swimmers across years and boys/girls.- The 2nd to 6th places are calculated on the best two events irrespective if these were winning events. The 2nd and 3rd places received the Best Performance awards.1st William Fawcett -35%2nd Emily Gray -29%3rd Sonny Maddison -21%4th Oliver Fenwick -19%​5th Tom Dennis -17%​6th Camille Vannier -16%